Mike Huckabee slams ‘liberal, crazy websites’

Mike Huckabee on Friday said those in the media blasting his “test of fire” ad aimed at Christian voters “make themselves to be fools” because it shows their “utter ignorance and illiteracy” of the Bible.

The former Arkansas governor told his radio listeners that MSNBC’s Martin Bashir (“Martin Batshir, if you will”), Mother Jones’s David Corn, the Daily Kos, ThinkProgress and “all these liberal, crazy websites” that have criticized the ad are “biblically illiterate and biblically ignorant, and they are utterly irresponsible.”

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The “test of fire” ad Huckabee narrated stated that each American’s vote “will affect the future and be recorded in eternity.”

“Will you vote the values that will stand the test of fire? This is Mike Huckabee asking you to join me November the 6th and vote based on values that will stand the test of fire,” Huckabee said in the two-minute long video connected to Value Voters USA.

On his Friday radio show, Huckabee played a clip of Bashir and Corn discussing the ad Thursday on MSNBC. “Is it now his view that the unforgivable sin is voting for this president?” Bashir asked.

“Well, apparently not Santa, but God, is keeping a list of whether you’re naughty or nice, and if you’re naughty you’re voting for Barack Obama and you’re going to hell,” Corn told Bashir.

Huckabee chuckled after playing the MSNBC clip, saying, “I’ve got to feel sorry for these people.” The radio host added that a friend of his asked after if the reaction bothered him, and he replied, “are you kidding? I feel honored. I’m thrilled.”

The response to the video exposes liberals’ “utter, absolute, illiterate ignorance of what I was talking about. The word hell was never mentioned. Neither was the word Obama, nor Romney, nor Democrat, nor Republican,” Huckabee said.

Huckabee then recommended “these geniuses” do a Google search to find the verse in the Bible related to the test of fire. If they had, Corn and Bashir would have seen that the reference has “not one thing to do with telling someone they’re going to hell. Again, I’ve just got to feel sorry for these people.”

The video Huckabee narrated calls on Christians to “shape the future” for future generations when they cast their ballots next week.

“Many issues are at stake, but some issues are not negotiable,” he said in the ad. “The right to life from conception to natural death. Marriage should be reinforced, not redefined. It is an egregious violation of our cherished principle of religious liberty for the government to force the church to buy the kind of insurance that leads to the taking of innocent human life.”

Readers' Comments (42)

But really, is there any reason in the 21st century for anyone to be any more conversant with the details of Huckabee's bible than with the epic of Gilgamesh or the Upanishads or the Book of Mormon? Just because Huckabee is hung up on it doesn't mean anyone else needs to be.

I am devout Christian who finds Mike Huckabee's comments disgusting. I dare say that I know as much about the Bible as he does. I know that MY Lord does not judge others...MY Lord is not a bigot...MY Lord loves and cares for those less fortunate and asks us to do the same...and finally, without speaking for the Lord...I believe that He most definitely would be disappointed in Mike Huckabee.

I am glad dinosaurs like Huckabee and the rest of the wrong-wingers are an endangered species.

Mike, grab a clue. Being biblically literate is nothing to brag about, and certainly won't get anyone a job, but being mathematically literate can, or scientifically literate can. GO back to Arkansas and cling to your guns and religion whilst the rest of us fix the mess you and your ilk left the country in.

If you want to study the bible, fine its a free country; but jesus, muhammad, buddha or vishnu should not have seat at the table of government. Religion is a very personal thing that should be kept to yourself. Huck dont push that fire and brimstone crap on me.

He, like Mitt in Mass., destroyed the hard drives of the computers in his and staff's offices. No matter how offensive his words or policies were, he tried to cloak everything in religious righteousness. Now he's making tons of money spewing his ideas in Florida. Hope he stays there.

According to the Bible, neither one of the presidential candidates are fit for office. One is a former leader of the biggest cult in America, let alone the world, and the other is in favor of same-sex marriage and abortion. Neither candidate deserves a vote biblically.